ill-fame. The court explained, as it had done before, that a person can be a vagrant, yet be steadily employed, the law being general in its effect and covering many points upon which a conviction can be had on a charge of vagrancy.³⁹

Although no law prevents Negroes from entering any park in Indianapolis, they are excluded from at least one of them by the danger of being assaulted by so-called “bungaloo gangs.” In many parts of the country, both North and South, the Negro's coming and going is ordered by law or threatened violence.

In three places, at least, in North Carolina, a Negro is not allowed to stay over night—Canton, Haywood County, Mitchell, and Madison Counties … Negroes may work unmolested all day, but, if they linger after nightfall, they are reminded that it would not be healthy for them to remain during the night.⁴⁰

At Syracuse, O…. and Lawrenceburg, Ellwood, and Salem, Ind., Negroes have not been permitted to live for years. If a Negro appears, he is warned of conditions, and if he does not leave immediately he is visited by a crowd of boys and men and forced to leave. A farmer who lives within a few miles of Indianapolis told me of a meeting by 35 farmers … in which an agreement was passed to hire no Negroes, nor to permit Negroes to live anywhere in the region.⁴¹

From Atlanta “Georgian,” March, 1907. Peter Zeigler, a Negro, was last night escorted out of town by a crowd of white men. Zeigler has been here for a month and passed himself off as a white man. A visiting lady recognized him as a Negro who formerly lived in her city…. It developed regarding this news item from Albany, Georgia, that immediately after suffering the indignity of being expelled … Mr. Zeigler communicated with his friends and relatives, a delegation of whom came from Charleston … and proved to the satisfaction of every one that Mr. Zeigler was in reality a white man connected with several old families in South Carolina.⁴²

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